SBCCI 2021 Program

34ᵗʰ Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design

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Virtual
August 23 to 27, 2021


SBCCI 2021 Table of Contents

 

  Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
08h40 - 10h20   Session 1 - Analog Design and Applications
(5 papers)
Session 4 - Video Coding
(5 papers)
Session 7 - Digital Design for Low Power – Circuits
(4 papers)
10h30 - 11h50   Session 2 - Neural Networks
(invited + 3 papers)
Session 5 - Many-core Systems
(invited +3 papers)
Session 8 - Digital Design for Low Power – Architectures
(invited + 3 papers)
13h00 - 14h00

Keynote
Naoto Horiguchi

Keynote
David Patterson

Keynote
Rolf Drechsler

Keynote invited

 

14h10 - 15h30 Special Session SBCCI CECCI-CEDA Session 3 - Analog Design for Low Power
(4 papers)
Session 6 - Design Automation
and Reliability
(4 papers)
Session 9 - Quantum
Computing and New Devices
(3 papers)

 

Keynotes

David Patterson
Ten Lessons From Three Generations Shaped Google’s TPUv4i
University of California at Berkeley and Google, USA

Rolf Drechsler
Edge Verification: Ensuring Correctness under Resource Constraints
University of Bremen at Germany and Director of the Cyber-Physical Systems Group at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Bremen

Naoto Horiguchi
CMOS Device Architecture Evolution from FinFETs to Nanosheet and Atomic Channel Devices
Imec, Leuven, Belgium

 

Session 1 - Analog Design and Applications

Wednesday - 8h40 - 10h20

Session Chair: Dalton Colombo (UFMG)

1.1 A Latching Current Limiter with Telemetries for Space Applications
Ronald Hassib Galvis Chacón, Agnaldo Vieira Dias, Ângela Alves dos Santos, Paula Cristiane Secheusk, Silvio Manea, José Alexandre Diniz and Saulo Finco
CTI, INPE, UNICAMP
1.2 Injection-Locked Ring Oscillator based Phase Locked Loop For 1.6 Gbps Clock Recovery
Dorian Vert, Michel PIGNOL, Vincent LEBRE, Emmanuel MOUTAYE, Florence MALOU and Jean-Baptiste Begueret
University of Bordeaux, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Thales Alenia Space (France)
1.3 A 237 ppm/°C L-Band Active Inductance BasedVoltage Controlled Oscillator in SOI 0.18 µm
João Roberto Raposo de Oliveira Martins, Francisco Alves and Pietro Maris Ferreira
Université Paris-Saclay (France)
1.4 Modeling of Reconfigurable Σ∆ Modulator for Multi-standard Wireless Receivers in Verilog-A
Mateus Castro, Raphael Noal Souza, Agord Junior, Eduardo Lima and Leandro Manera
UNICAMP, Instituto de Pesquisas Eldorado
1.5 Multifunctional auricular vagus nerve stimulator for closed-loop application
Babak Dabiri, Klaus Zeiner, Arnaud Nativel and Eugenijus Kaniusas
Institute of Electrodynamics, Microwave and Circuit Engineering (Austria)

 

Session 2 - Neural Networks

Wednesday - 10h30 - 11h50

Session Chair: Leandro Mateus Giacomini Rocha (IFRS)

 

Machine Learning Models for EDA Application
Youngsoo Shin
KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (invited talk)
2.1 FLoPAD-GRU: A Flexible, Low Power, Accelerated DSP for Gated Recurrent Unit Neural Network
Ilayda Yaman, Allan Andersen, Lucas Ferreira and Joachim Rodrigues
Lund University (Sweden)
2.2 Exploring Constant Signal Propagation to Optimize Neural Network Circuits
Augusto Berndt, Cristina Meinhardt, Paulo Butzen and Andre Reis
UFRGS, UFSC
2.3 Artificial Neural Network Based Automatic Modulation Classification System Applied to FPGA
Adenilson Castro, Ronny Milléo, Luis Lolis and André Mariano
UFPR

 

Session 3 - Analog Design for Low Power

Wednesday - 14h10 - 15h30

Session Chair: Pietro Ferreira (Université Paris-Saclay)

3.1 A High PSRR Technique Based on 180 degree Phase Shift Biasing for Low Power Temperature Sensors
Arpan Jain, Abhishek Pullela, Ashfakh Ali and Zia Abbas
International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (India)
3.2 0.5 V 19 nW Smart Temperature Sensor for Ultra-Low-Power CMOS Applications
Daniel Lott and Dalton Colombo
UFMG
3.3 Exploration of a Low-power CMOS Voltage Squarer
Victor Costa, Adilson Cardoso, Cesar Rodrigues, Andre Aita and Jefferson Marques
UFSM, UFSC
3.4 A 0.6V, 3.3nW , Adjustable Gaussian Circuit for Tunable Kernel Functions
Vassilis Alimisis, Marios Gourdouparis, Christos Dimas and Paul Sotiriadis
National Technical University of Athens (Greece)

 

Session 4 - Video Coding

Thursday - 8h40 - 10h20

Session Chair: César Augusto Missio Marcon (PUCRS)

4.1 High-throughput and low-power architectures for the AV1 Arithmetic Encoder
Tulio Pereira Bitencourt, Fábio Luís Livi Ramos and Sergio Bampi
UFRGS, UNIPAMPA
4.2 High-Performance Design for the AV1 Multi-Alphabet Arithmetic Decoder
Jiovana Gomes and Fábio Luís Livi Ramos
UNIPAMPA
4.3 High-Throughput Sharp Interpolation Filter Hardware Architecture for the AV1 Video Codec
Daiane Freitas, Cláudio Diniz, Mateus Grellert and Guilherme Corrêa
UFPEL, UFSC, UFRGS
4.4 Configurable Power/Quality-Aware Hardware Design for the AV1 Directional Intra Frame Prediction
Luiz Neto, Marcel Correa, Bruno Zatt, Daniel Palomino, Luciano Agostini and Guilherme Corrêa
UFPEL
4.5 Configurable Approximate Hardware Accelerator to Compute SATD and SAD Metrics for Low Power All Intra High Efficiency Video Coding
Victor Lima, Matheus Stigger, Leonardo Bandeira Soares, Cláudio Diniz and Sergio Bampi
UCPel, UFRGS

 

Session 5 - Many-core Systems

Thursday - 10h30 - 11h50

Session Chair: Mônica Magalhães Pereira (UFRN)

 

INVITED MANY-CORES
5.1 MUTECO: A Framework for Collaborative Allocation in CPU-FPGA Multi-tenant Environments
Michael Jordan, Guilherme Korol, Mateus Beck Rutzig and Antonio Carlos Schneider Beck
UFRGS, UFSM
5.2 Management Application - a New Approach to Control Many-Core Systems
Angelo Dalzotto, Leonardo Erthal, Marcelo Ruaro and Fernando Moraes
PUCRS
5.3 Reflect3d: An Adaptive and Fault-Tolerant Routing Algorithm for Vertically-Partially-Connected 3D-NoC
Alexandre Almeida da Silva, Leonel Maia e Silva Junior, Alexandre Coelho, Jarbas Silveira and César Marcon
UFC, PUCRS

 

Session 6 - Design Automation and Reliability

Thursday - 14h10 - 15h30

Session Chair: José Luís Güntzel (UFSC)

6.1 Accuracy and Size Trade-off of a Cartesian Genetic Programming Flow for Logic Optimization
Augusto Berndt, Isac Campos, Brunno Abreu, Bryan Lima, Mateus Grellert, Jônata Carvalho and Cristina Meinhardt
UFRGS, UFSC
6.2 A method to join the On-set and Off-set of an incompletely boolean function into a single BDD
Renato Peralta, João Nespolo, Paulo Butzen, Mariana Kolberg and Andre Reis
UFRGS
6.3 Asymmetric Aging Avoidance EDA Tool
Freddy Gabbay, Avi Mendelson, Basel Salame and Majd Ganaiem
Ruppin Academic Center and Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Israel)
6.4

A Versatile Test Set Generation Tool for Structural Analog Circuit Testing
Lucas Zilch, Marcelo Lubaszewski and Tiago Balen
UFRGS

 

Session 7 - Digital Design for Low Power - Circuits

Friday - 9h00 - 10h20

Session Chair: Leonardo Bandeira Soares (IFRS)

7.1 Exploring Approximate Computing and Near-Threshold Operation to Design Energy-efficient Multipliers
Vinícius Zanandrea, Douglas Borges, Vagner Rosa and Cristina Meinhardt
UFSC, FURG
7.2 Optimizing Partial Product Terms for a Power-Efficient Radix-4 Modified Booth Multiplier
Jean Scheunemann, Marlon Sigales, Mateus Fonseca and Eduardo Costa
UCPel, UFPEL
7.3 A Robust and Power-Efficient VLSI Power Line Interference Canceling Design
Morgana Macedo Azevedo da Rosa, Patrícia da Costa, Guilherme Paim, Eduardo da Costa, Sergio Almeida and Sergio Bampi
UCPel, UFRGS
7.4 Soft Error Tolerant Quasi-Delay Insensitive Asynchronous Circuits: Advancements and Challenges
Ashiq Sakib
Florida Polytechnic University (USA)

 

Session 8 - Digital Design for Low Power - Architectures

Friday - 10h30 - 11h50

Session Chair: Fábio Luís Livi Ramos (UNIPAMPA)

 

Application of injection locked relaxation oscillators to the design of ultra-low power sensor interfaces
Franck BADETS
CEA Leti, Département DCOS (invited talk)
8.1 Improving energy efficiency by transparently sharing SIMD Execution Units in Asymmetric Multicores
Caio Vieira and Antonio Carlos Schneider Beck
UFRGS
8.2 ETCG: Energy-Aware CPU Thread Throttling for CPU-GPU Collaborative Environments
Tiago Knorst, Michael Jordan, Arthur Lorenzon, Mateus Beck Rutzig and Antonio Carlos Schneider Beck
UFRGS, UNIPAMPA, UFSM
8.3 Evaluating the Performance, Energy and Area Tradeoffs of ATHENA in Superscalar Processors
Francisco Carlos Silva Junior, Ricardo Jacobi and Ivan Silva
UNB, UFPI

 

Session 9 - Quantum Computing and New Devices

Friday - 14h10 - 15h10

Session Chair: Omar Paranaiba Vilela Neto (UFMG)

9.1 Modeling wave propagation using automata cellular on Chip
Henrique de Moura and Daniel Munoz
UNB
9.2 Novel Three-Input Gates for Silicon Quantum Dot
Maria Dalila Vieira, Icaro Moreira, Pedro Silva, Laysson Luz, Ricardo Ferreira, Omar Vilela Neto and José Augusto Nacif
UFV, UFMG
9.3 Optimizing a Robust Miller OTA Implemented with Diamond MOSFETs By Using iMTGSPICE
José Roberto Banin Júnior, Rodrigo Moreto, Gabriel da Silva, Carlos Thomaz and Salvador Gimenez
FEI